About competency-based recruitment
Competency based recruitment is a method that you can use to conduct interviews more successfully. This recruitment method involves assessing all applicants on a stringent set of prearranged yardsticks and discovers their real aptitude to do the work.
Applicants are told to explain their behavior in accordance with:
The circumstance in which it happened
The action taken by them
The consequence
Some example of competency based recruitment questions are given below:
a) Tell me about an occasion when you faced a nerve-racking position that showed your surviving skills?
b) Provide a particular instance of a period when you applied excellent wisdom and reason in resolving a problem?
c) Provide an instance of a period when you fixed a goal and were successful in attaining it?
d) Provide me a particular instance of a period when you had to obey to a policy to which you did not consent?
e) Describe an occasion when you had to go over and above the line of duty so as to get a work completed?
f) Speak about an occasion when you had too much work to do and you were forced to prioritize your duties?
g) What is your usual way of handling conflict? Provide an example?
h) Speak about an occasion when you successfully dealt with another individual even though that person had not directly admired you or vice versa?
i) Provide an instance when you took the initiative and became the forerunner?
j) Speak about a current situation where you had to handle a very distressed co-worker or customer?
k) Provide an instance of an occasion when you applied your information-gathering skills to resolve a problem?
Competency based recruitment questions are varied and depend mainly on the level of the position applied for along with the business vertical.
As an interviewer, practice will make you perfect. The more you refine your interviewing skills, the further successful you will be in employing the right applicant for the job.
